REALISATION.

Otaki Mail, 5 June 1922, Page 4

REALISATION.

I o - f (Chapter 15, Continued.) i ~ j By F. J. Ryder. j Tlio commandments of the bible we I have posted up everywhere, aud these good mottoes are so installed into us when young that we never seem to for : got it, but it's no wonder you had trouthat was so terribly wrong? Why, it's days. How's that? What did we do that was so terribly wrong. Why it's not what you did wrong, but pray, vvhal did you do right.' Why we though'. we wore awfully clever in those days. Yes, and we now wonder how you lived at all. I will illustrate one Utile simple thing that we have done which has helped us considerably. In your days a girl could enter a factory or office when she had finished school, and a few years' later get married without knowing one item of house-keeping. Well, pray, what of that, for I know that happened in thousands of cases i Well, you see, when that woman became a mother she could not teach her children, and iu turn they had to muddle through life as best they could and you used to wonder what kept people poor. ! Pray, what have you done to alter that state of affairs? Well, I will tell you. iSTo woman can get into a factory, an office, or any other place until they have secured a eertiiicarc to say that they are competent housekeepers from Ato Z. That means they can cook. J wash, clean, iron, mend, scrub, wash. j and dress a baby just as well as on of your best old mothers could have • done, and know how to care for the * baby in the bargain. I suppose this ( only applies to the poor. Oh, dear no. five have no two laws now, one for tin j rich and another for the poor, thow i days have gone by lor ever. Poor an'! I rich arc treated exactly alike now. in

fact things have so altered that as i • tell you it is hard for us to understand j how you got along at all. for in • stance we are now taught that to be | idle is one of the greatest sins on earth. ■ and we often wonder how a lot of youi ! old lime parsons are going to get on. for there is little doubt but what a loi : of them led anything but an active life, and when we have it installed into us year in and year out that example, is precept, can you wonder at us won-J dcring what kind of an example your I old lime parsons set the public. Why.' the Lord bless you, even our king now had to set a good example in your days.. He v.as allowed to do as he liked, and; no one questioned what the king did: just because he was king he could do as he wished. Now he is taught thai whal is good for him is good for his subjects, and in a few moments' time j you will see him come along with his children. In a motor car. I.presume. Not at. all, you will see him walking with his children just like, all other folk, and if one of those children is known to walk over a pin and not pick it up then he is in for trouble. So you can readily understand what effect that example has on all other children. But if you have made such wonderful improvements it's a wonder you have a king at all. Now, why be so silly, for you know there has to be a head toj everything. Why even the little bees,! have their queen, and pray, how would i a ship get on without a captain, or a! cricket or football team without a, captain, or a cricket or football team without their captain. You know all cannibal tribes had their chiefs, so there must be a head to everything. Another thing that has helped us considerably is cheapening of in your days one ouly had (o have ij few thousand pounds to enable him t"j live on the interest of same, but now. 3 thanks to our altered conditions, one I requires a mint of money before he t could live on the interest of same, and ( that being -0 there is not now the ten- f

deucy to stuck away money for there is little occasion to do so. You see our hours of work arc so short that scarcely anyone now goes ro work with a grudge of hatred; we now go to work just as you used to go to play with ••. will. We are all taught that we must work to live, and when we know how hard and long you had to work wo are quite contented to work willingly the few hours that we have to work. Well.. well, it's all very strange to me. hut pray tell me what have you done with yutir liquor laws? I suppose you have carried prohibition long ago. Oh, what a foolish idea, especially when we are taught that Christ partook vi wine. Xo, no. we go in for more common sense than that, we still have hotels, but built on very different lines to what they were built in your days. To-day an hotel is an hotel, not a liquor shop and a eating house combined: the bar is open to the street just like any other shop. One can see from the street who is there, and what they are drinking. It 's all open to the public, there's no drinking round corners out of sisht; it's all done before the publie. ZSTo women are allowed behind the bars, and there arc no fines if you are : stupid enough to take too much and you get run in. You are sent to the jail farm for so many days. Another thing we do is to see that nothing but pure unadulterated liquors are kept in stock; the liquor is tested now just as you used to test the milk, aud that's helped l<> mend matters wonderfully. Pray, tell me what is a jail farm: why 1 never heard of such a thing- Weil, a jail farm is a farm, pure and simple, but it is fenced in with a live electric wire fence, and it is sudden death anyone who attempts to get out. If; he did get out he has no chance of ger-i ting off. How'- that, they often get away from our strong jails and get' right away. Yes, they may have done so in your old stupid days, but I told you they did little or nothing right. Well, why cannot they get away now. Just because of the Y.S.M. What is that, pray? Well, it's our salvation — everyone belongs to it. It costs nothing to join; it's simply one big union that is run for the good of the peo-* pie. and you have to take your oath J when you joii it< Above ail other"

things you will never screen, not even your own brother if he has done wrong, and it is now seldom indeed that that oath is ever broken. Well, then _ you surely must have improved your people. (To bo Continued).